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HR 227

119th Congress

Latest action 2026-04-28: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

This bill number also appears in other loaded Congresses: 118th, 117th, 116th, 115th, 114th, 113th, 112th, 111th, 110th, 109th, 108th (bill numbers are reused each Congress, so these are different bills).

Clergy Act bill

sponsor
F000480
introduced
2025-01-07
policy area
Social Welfare
cosponsors
21
lobbying filings citing it
22
money facing its subject
the record
congress.gov
5 CRS legislative subjects, as written

Congressional oversight, Income tax exclusion, Religion, Social security and elderly assistance, Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Actions: 17 on the record

The record's own timeline, word for word, newest first. An action that names a committee links to it.

datetypeaction, as writtencommittee
2025-01-07 IntroReferral Introduced in House
2025-01-07 IntroReferral Introduced in House
2025-01-07 IntroReferral Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. House Committee on Ways and Means
2025-12-10 Committee Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held House Committee on Ways and Means
2025-12-10 Committee Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 0. House Committee on Ways and Means
2026-01-07 Committee Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-425. House Committee on Ways and Means
2026-01-07 Committee Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-425. House Committee on Ways and Means
2026-01-07 Calendars Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 370.
2026-04-27 Floor Mr. Carey moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2026-04-27 Floor Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3115-3116)
2026-04-27 Floor DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 227.
2026-04-27 Floor At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
2026-04-27 Floor Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3118-3119)
2026-04-27 Floor Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 350 - 5 (Roll no. 139). (text: CR H3115-3116)
2026-04-27 Floor On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 350 - 5 (Roll no. 139). (text: CR H3115-3116)
2026-04-27 Floor Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2026-04-28 IntroReferral Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Senate Committee on Finance

Cosponsors: 21

In order of signing; an original cosponsor signed on introduction day. A withdrawal stays on the record, marked, never deleted.

memberpartystatesigned
Mike Kelly Republican PA 2025-01-07 original
Mike Thompson Democrat CA 2025-01-07 original
Darin LaHood Republican IL 2025-01-09
Juan Ciscomani Republican AZ 2025-01-09
Suzan K. DelBene Democrat WA 2025-01-09
Lloyd Smucker Republican PA 2025-01-31
Rudy Yakym III Republican IN 2025-06-10
Adrian Smith Republican NE 2025-07-21
Ron Estes Republican KS 2025-07-21
Mike Carey Republican OH 2025-07-22
Nathaniel Moran Republican TX 2025-07-23
Gus M. Bilirakis Republican FL 2025-07-25
Claudia Tenney Republican NY 2025-09-08
Gregory F. Murphy Republican NC 2025-09-09
Jimmy Panetta Democrat CA 2025-09-15
Beth Van Duyne Republican TX 2025-09-18
Julia Letlow Republican LA 2025-09-18
Jim Costa Democrat CA 2025-10-21
Thomas R. Suozzi Democrat NY 2025-11-17
Danny K. Davis Democrat IL 2025-11-25
Brian K. Fitzpatrick Republican PA 2025-12-09

Lobbying: 22 filings cite this bill

Filings whose specific-issues text cites the bill, as the filers typed it ("H.R. 227", "HR 227", "H.R.227"). The LDA does not disclose positions on a bill (support or oppose), so none appear here; a filing is attributed to a Congress by its filing year. Counts, never dollars. ‡ lobbying estimates

registrant, as filedfilings citing ityears
K&L GATES, LLP 21 2025 to 2026
AARP 1 2025
client, as filedfilings citing ityears
CHURCH ALLIANCE 18 2025 to 2026
THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 3 2025 to 2026
AARP 1 2025

Money facing this bill

A giver's face is the list of subjects its organization lobbies Congress on, read from its own lobbying reports and spread by how often each subject comes up; a gift from someone who works there is spread the same way.

$8,659

measureMoney facing a bill's subject that reached its sponsors, version 3

subjectSocial Welfare

members counted22

members with a candidacy in 202622

this row as datathe stored row

from individual donors whose organizations lobby on Social Welfare, the bill's policy area, reached the 22 members who sponsor or cosponsor it, in the 2026 cycle, more than 94% of Social Welfare bills. From PACs whose sponsors lobby on it: $117k, counted separately.

This is money tied to the bill's subject, not money given for or against the bill. It shows what an organization lobbies on, not what position it takes, and no gift is tied to a bill.

The members it reached, and who gave it

The organizations are each member's three largest on this subject. A group of organizations is shown by name only after a person has reviewed it.

Lobbying clients that named this bill in their filings
ClientFilingsIts face on Social Welfare
CHURCH ALLIANCE 18
25%

what it isthe share of this client's lobbying activity on the subject

face window2025-2026

its face and filingsopen the evidence

THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 3
9%

what it isthe share of this client's lobbying activity on the subject

face window2025-2026

its face and filingsopen the evidence

AARP 1
3%

what it isthe share of this client's lobbying activity on the subject

face window2025-2026

its face and filingsopen the evidence

Money facing a bill's subject that reached its sponsors, version 3 · ‡ self-reported text ‡ small donors invisible ‡ lobbying estimates

Votes: 1 roll call tied to this bill by the chambers' own documents

Tallies are the chambers' own published numbers. ‡ votes, not motives

datechamberquestionresultyeasnaysrecord
2026-04-27 house On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended Passed 350 5 the chamber's document

Coverage: bills are loaded for Congresses 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119. We have not collected a Congress missing from that list, so its bills do not show here even though they exist. Lobbying citations cover the LDA years we collected; votes cover the loaded roll-call files. ‡ correlation, not purchase ‡ lobbying estimates ‡ votes, not motives